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The fire was an accident, they conducted their own investigation and hired dr. rick roby, an expert on the science of fires. >> what makes it difficult is, fires burn up a lot of the evidence. >> roby studies fires while they're burning. to do this, he sets fires like this one in model rooms. fires progress differently depending on how they're set, the size of the room, airflow and hundreds of other considerations. all of this data is then entered into a computer. >> it's a fully 3d fire modeling software that actually allows you to model the development and growth of a fire in a building. >> ...

Rosalie worked in the computer industry. their only child, paul, a 31-year-old computer programmer, lived upstairs. he took care of his parents since they had difficulty getting around. >> it's not that they were bedridden or complete invalids, but they certainly weren't athletic and able to respond, in my opinion, to an emergency situation. >> just before dawn in september of 1996, paul made an emergency call to the fire department. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> we have a fire in our living room. it's getting really bad. >> get out of the house. we have the fire department coming out. [ ...

Explain how the gasoline would be in hardwood floor but not in carpeting and padding above it, if a significant volume of gasoline was poured. >> and avato wasn't the least bit suspicious of paul's behavior on the night of the fire. >> it's not unusual for people in a fire to exit a building through the way that they're most comfortable exiting. if they typically come and go through the front door, no matter where they are in the house, they'll exit through the front door. >> avato told local investigators that he believed the fire was accidental, and he was roundly dismissed. >> they portraye...

Porch severely burned and barely conscious. but there was no sign of her 81-year-old husband, ed. firefighters later found him inside. he had been unable to escape. >> the victim that was located was in a rear bathroom, and he was in cardiac arrest at that time. >> ed camiolo was pronounced dead at the hospital. rosalie died, too, a result of smoke inhalation. >> how horrible it must have been for my uncle, what he went through to be burned, and my aunt, how horrible it must have been for her. >> the firemen at the scene didn't see anything suspicious. >> there was a general consensus that the...

The molecular components of the samples, and the results showed there was evidence of gasoline on the wood floor. >> and the single biggest piece of evidence for them to conclude this was an arson fire was the finding of gasoline in the hardwood floor, because how else would you explain gasoline in a living room? >> when the test results come back, it changes from i don't know to, wow, we have an accelerant here. this must be an arson, and that changes people's opinions. >> to prosecutors, the presence of gasoline meant murder. based on this evidence, prosecutors believe that paul poured gasol...